Yes, I did Tomb Raider, Thunderstruck and Cashapillar by playing loads of spins, writing down the result of each spin, then piecing them together like a jigsaw puzzle!
But this was INCREDIBLY time consuming: Cashapillar took over a week!
Then some bright spark came up with a way of extracting the data from the feed used by the casino when loading up flash games in your browser, so all the rest of the reel layouts on SlotBeaters.com were based on those findings.
This is the thread where it all took off:
https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/cracking-the-slot-reels-here-you-go.19302/
Regarding those 3 newer slots, personally I believe the base games are also done with "true reel strips" (meaning they have a fixed sequence of symbols and the chance of each symbol landing on the centre win-line is equal). So if you plotted them out you could work out the chances of hitting the bigger combinations and 3 or more scatters in normal spins. But, and this is a big BUT - you couldn't work out the T-RTP of the slots due to the unknown formula's used in the bonus rounds.
e.g. On Battlestar the "timer feature" in the middle phase is obviously not created by a fixed symbol on the strip just happening to fall in view, but I think it is triggered randomly and then the reels are generated by a separate "sub-program" if you like to product the pre-determined result.
And on IR & TS2 the "spreading wild" feature gives an unknown number of wilds, and is obviously weighted towards certain reels over others.
So in essence, you can only work out the T-RTP of slots which have a fixed known bonus round, such as 15 spins @ x3. And then, only if you know the reel set used in the free-spins (which on some slots is different from the base game (e.g. Moonshine)).
The reason that this attracts so little interest is "so what"? Even I have the same attitude myself these days. I don't need to know the T-RPT or chances of hitting a feature before I start playing a new slot - I just play it and if I enjoy it and/or get some nice wins on it, chances are I'll play it again. If I think it's shite, I wont.
KK